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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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